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Evita is a spectacular eye-catcher, but it seldom gets a grip on a playgoer's feelings. For one thing, the basic tale has been too oft told. It is the familiar show-biz saga of a nobody from nowhere who, through wile and gumption, achieves wealth, fame and glory as a dazzling superstar. In the case of Evita, this tale has been telescoped and occasionally tampered with. Most of the key events happen offstage. They are described in song and dance and recitative, but not dramatically rendered, so the musical lacks the warming pulse of intimacy...
...other woman," Karen Traynor, is played masterfully by WASP phenomenon Meryl Streep. A lawyer whose civil rights organization gives Tynan information which can destroy a supposedly racist Supreme Court nominee, Traynor bears the oft-mentioned aphrodisiac of power: as Tynan makes the move on Traynor in his private office, he whispers, "I think I'm infatuated with you... You remind me of John Kennedy...
Surprisingly, in view of the oft repeated objections of college presidents and boards of overseers that U.S. divestment is unlikely to affect racism in South Africa, the tally of divested dollars has been slowly mounting. A few boards of trustees have voted full divestiture. Among them, according to the Washington-based Investor Responsibility Research Center: Hampshire College (of $39,000), the University of Massachusetts (of $631,000), Ohio University (of $38,000), Michigan State (of $8.5 million), and the University of Wisconsin (of $11 million). Other colleges have chosen partial divestiture, or selling stock selectively in those companies that fail...
...dedication ceremonies, the Kennedy School's decision to name its Public Affairs Library after Charles W. Engelhard--a notorious financial supporter, and beneficiary, of the brutal gold trade in South Africa--was a startling affront to all those who had hoped the University was sincere in its oft-stated concern for the oppressed in South Africa. School administrators, in accepting a $1 million donation from the Engelhard Foundation, clearly exhibited the same type of amoral, heartlessly opportunistic thinking that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today--the type of thinking that, to read the school's catalogue...
DIED. Barbara Mutton, 66, oft-wed Woolworth heiress whose personal misfortunes earned her the nickname "poor little rich girl"; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Her seven husbands included Laotian, Lithuanian and Russian princes, a Prussian count and Actor Cary Grant. A granddaughter of the founder of the 5 and 10? store chain. Hutton inherited some $25 million at age twelve, but was long plagued by illnesses that ranged from kidney disease to cataracts, and spent her last years a recluse, often bedridden and weighing only...